Unit 3 practice

Front

The British began imposing taxes on the colonists in 1765 to help pay the expenses of fighting the —

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French and Indian War

Front

How did James Armistead contribute to the American victory at Yorktown?

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Passing along information he had discovered while spying.

Front

How did Thomas Paine contribute to the revolutionary cause?

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Writing “Common Sense” to persuade others to join the Patriots.

Front

Where did General Washington camp the Continental Army for training over the bitter winter of 1777–8?

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Valley Forge

Front

What was a significant accomplishment of the Second Continental Congress in 1776?

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Writing the Declaration of Independence

Front

What best describes the government of the United States after the American Revolution?

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independent from British rule

Front

What did George Washington emphasize in his 1777 letter to the states regarding the troops?

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The troops were in desperate need of supplies and more men, without which they would be unable to achieve victory.

Front

What caused the reaction described in the excerpt?

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Resentment of the British East India Company for monopolizing the tea trade

Front

Many of the protests and demonstrations that followed the Stamp Act and Intolerable Acts were examples of what?

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Civil disobedience

Front

Which selection taken from John Adams’s diary highlights a reason for the colonists’ actions during the Boston Tea Party?

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To let it be landed, would be giving up the principle of taxation by Parliamentary authority, against which the continent have struggled for 10 years, it was [losing] all our [labor] for 10 years and Subjecting ourselves and our posterity forever… to burdens, indignities… to poverty and servitude.